No cellphone

I have no cell phone. Yes I can just imagine your face right now. It will probably be about similar to the ones I have gotten fact-to-face when I tell them that I have no phone. It's just like declaring yourself a vegetarian.  The expression is something between shock and being dumbfounded. As if this mortal willingly decided to abstain from one of the great pleasures in life - whether either eating meat (Fleisch as the Germans and Dutch like to call it - which you know sounds more appropriate but gruesome) or having a cellphone.

But the cellphone is much more now as it used to be in the golden olden ages (ahem 5 years ago? not so long). Now, its as if we had always been born and raised with a cellphone to our ear. And then again, who wouldn't want it not to be - with the new models that are out you can do everything EVERYTHING on the cellphone: tell time, internet, calculation, fb, twitter, maps etc. etc.  I once asked a guy if he had the time. He had a watch but ofcourse he went instinctively for his cellphone!

Which then leads me to ponder can live really exist before cellphones? Well if our parents lived most their lives without this handy dandy instrument then why not? When I came back from abroad, my phone wasn't at the same frequency as in North America - and since then have never found a good reason to get a new cell phone.  And why not? Surely, this women would now attest to my predicament.  A godsend but also major distraction in the form of a pocket sized trouble making device. Like a fb on demand. I've gone roughly a month without a cell and counting. No harm yet. Time will tell. But atleast I won't be crashing into any water fountains.